xxii, 327 pages : 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index

Part I : Preliminary issues -- Introduction. Methodology ; Goals -- A proposition -- Vocation. A history of vocation ; Labor, work, and action -- The efficacy of art. Toward a theory of representation ; Art and social change -- Part II : Roles of the artist -- Premodern theocentric mimetic craftsperson. Traditional artist/artisan ; The Russian icon writer ; The Tibetan thangka painter ; Reaccenting premodern traditions -- Modern anthropocentric original inventor. From the premodern to the modern ; Artist as hero ; Artist as semidivine creator and mystic visionary -- Avant-garde prophet. The avant-garde ; Artist as prophet ; The death of the avante-garde and the birth of the postmodern -- Postmodern parodic ex-centric bricoleur. Characterizing the present ; Artist as bricoleur ; Artists and their media -- Part III : The reclamation of the future -- Prophetic criticism. Defining prophecy ; Prophecy in historical perspective ; The process of prophetic criticism -- Visionary imagination. Models of the imagination ; Ocularcentrism ; Recuperation of the visionary imagination -- Creativity, utopia, and hope. Creativity ; Utopia ; Hope ; Artist as public intellectual -- A final image

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